EARL Of RONALDSHAYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of the present necessity for the strict collection of all revenue due to the Exchequer, and likewise of the burdens imposed on all ordinary shopkeepers, he will consider the advisability of having the profits of co-operative societies, claimed by them to amount to fourteen millions sterling a year, taxed at the source?
§ Mr. McKENNAI would refer the Noble Lord to the answers which I gave on this subject on the 30th ultimo. Of these I am sending him a copy.